Monthly Archives: December, 2005

Siemens to supply GSM R network to Saudi Arabian rail line

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it received a $70.8 million order from the Saudi Railways Organization to upgrade more than 600 miles of the Saudi...

RockitTalk takes dealers on wild ride

Cellular phone dealers and customers around the country have found themselves burned by the quick take-off and crash of a self-proclaimed mobile virtual network...

Sununu: FCC unfair to VoIP carriers on E911 regulations

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should not discriminate against Voice over Internet Protocol providers when there are more than 100 counties that do not offer...

Roving wiretaps held up in Patriot Act filibuster

WASHINGTON-Law enforcement's ability to use "roving wiretaps" is in doubt following a failed attempt to break a Senate filibuster of the USA Patriot Act...

Motorola’s Zander RCR Wireless News ‘Person of the Year’

Editor's Note: Each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff chooses the person who has impacted the wireless industry the most during the past...

Wireless wins one: Appeals court overturns Minnesota consumer-protection law

WASHINGTON-The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gutted Minnesota's wireless consumer-protection law, defeating Attorney General Mike Hatch (D) and handing the mobile-phone industry a...

House passes budget agreement, DTV hard date set for Feb. 17, 2009

WASHINGTON-House and Senate negotiators have settled on Feb. 17, 2009, as the deadline for completing the transition to digital TV service. The House of...

RadioShack likely to fall short of earnings goals due to slow phone sales

FORT WORTH, Texas-Disappointing wireless sales likely will prevent RadioShack Corp. from meeting its full-year earnings forecast, the retailer said. Calling its wireless sales "weaker...

Amended health lawsuit bypasses cancer question

WASHINGTON-The activities of cellular trade group CTIA under former president Thomas Wheeler are highlighted in a re-filed class-action lawsuit alleging wireless carriers, vendors and...

Feeding the beast

It is the high-octane caffeine of Wall Street, the financial news media, Internet tip sheets and corporate America: quarterly earnings forecasts. It is the...

Siemens absent from Cingular UMTS network rollout?

Siemens AG's equipment is not part of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s initial 16-city UMTS/HSDPA rollout, according to UBS Investment Research. The situation stands as a...

Bell Canada launches downloadable music service

TORONTO-Bell Canada launched a full track music download service powered by Groove Mobile, which also enables a similar service recently launched by Sprint Nextel...

Danger pushes new features to T-Mobile Sidekick users

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Device vendor Danger Inc. announced it is conducting an over-the-air updating campaign for all T-Mobile Sidekick II users in the United States...

Sprint Nextel picks up Enterprise for $98 million

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will acquire another of its CDMA affiliates, this time picking up Enterprise Communications for about $98 million including the...

Cingular unveils CingularVideo with HBO

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced plans to launch a streaming video service, CingularVideo, in January, featuring two channels of content from premium cable channel HBO....

Amp’d ready to rock with MTV $$, Web launch

Mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc. last week made its long-awaited and much-hyped soft launch. The carrier is offering a range of postpaid...

Razr, Sidekick top holiday wish lists, Compete finds

BOSTON-Motorola Inc.'s Razr phone and Danger Inc.'s Sidekick II will find their way into more Christmas stockings this year than other devices.The Razr and...

Weekly wireless ratings wrap-up

The following list includes ratings changes and financial information for wireless companies announced this week by investment-banking and financial-services firms.CarriersStandard & Poor's Ratings Services...

WiMAX carrier NextPhase takes aim at SoCal

ANAHEIM, Calif.-NextPhase Wireless Inc. said it expanded its pre-WiMAX network into California's Riverside and San Bernardino counties.The company, which designs and operates its own...

RFMD expands in China

GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc. said it plans to expand its Chinese assembly operations to increase internal assembly capacity by about 50 percent. The...

Public safety should partner with commercial wireless, argues Sprint Nextel’s Donahue

WASHINGTON-Public safety should consider partnerships with commercial wireless, said Timothy Donahue, executive chairman of Sprint Nextel Corp. and NRIC VII chairman. Acting as chairman...

Sluggish wireless injures RadioShack

FORT WORTH, Texas-Disappointing wireless sales likely will prevent RadioShack Corp. from meeting its full-year earnings forecast, the retailer said. Calling its wireless sales "weaker...

Sprint Nextel picks up Enterprise for $98 million

RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will acquire another of its CDMA affiliates, this time picking up Enterprise Communications for about $98 million including...

Google’s Gmail goes mobile

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. quietly took its e-mail service wireless, allowing users to access their Gmail accounts from Web-enabled handsets. The service, which is...

Study shows benefits of Wi-Fi

A new study commissioned by the Wi-Fi Alliance not surprisingly found that Wi-Fi users do in fact enjoy the convenience of Wi-Fi technology. Survey.com...
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